A list of films produced in Australia by year, from the 1890s to the end of the 1910s, in the List of Australian films.
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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1896 | ||||||
| The Melbourne Cup | Marius Sestier | Henry Walter Barnett, Lord Brassey | Sport documentary | 24 Nov. IMDb | ||
| Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly | Marius Sestier | Short documentary | 24 Nov. IMDb | |||
| Patineur Grotesque | Marius Sestier | Short documentary | ||||
| 1898 | ||||||
| Social Salvation | Herbert Booth | Short | 1 July IMDb | |||
| 1900 | ||||||
| Soldiers of the Cross | Herbert Booth, Joseph Perry | Beatrice Day, Harold Graham | Biography drama | 13 Sep. IMDb | ||
| 1906 | ||||||
| The Story of the Kelly Gang | Charles Tait | Elizabeth Tait, John Tait | Biography drama | 26 Dec. Considered the first full-length feature film ever made IMDb | ||
| 1907 | ||||||
| Eureka Stockade | Arthur Cornwall, George Cornwell | Short | 19 Oct. IMDb | |||
| Robbery Under Arms | Charles MacMahon | Jim Gérald, George Merriman, Lance Vane | Drama | 2 Nov. - Based on novel IMDb | ||
| 1908 | ||||||
| For the Term of His Natural Life | Charles MacMahon | Martyn Keith, Rosie Knight Phillips | Short | 8 Aug. IMDb | ||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | ||||||
| Moonlite (a.k.a. Captain Moonlite) |
John Gavin | John Gavin, H.A. Forsyth, Ruby Butler | Short | 31 Dec. IMDb | ||
| The Squatter's Daughter (a.k.a. The Land of the Wattle) |
Bert Bailey | Olive Wilton, Bert Bailey, Edmund Duggan | 4 Aug. - Based on play IMDb | |||
| Thunderbolt | John Gavin | John Gavin, Ruby Butler, H.A. Forsyth | Short | 12 Nov. IMDb | ||
| 1911 | ||||||
| All for Gold, or Jumping the Claim | Franklyn Barrett | Walter Bastin, Herbert Bentley, Ronald McLeod | Short | IMDb | ||
| The Assigned Servant | John Gavin | Agnes Gavin, John Gavin, Sid Harrison, Dore Kurtz | Short | IMDb | ||
| Assigned to His Wife | John Gavin | John Gavin, Agnes Gavin, Carr Austin | Drama | 9 Oct. IMDb | ||
| Attack on the Gold Escort | ? | Action drama | 26 June IMDb | |||
| The Bells | W. J. Lincoln | Nellie Bramley, Miss Grist | 7 Oct. IMDb | |||
| Ben Hall and His Gang | John Gavin | John Gavin | Short | IMDb | ||
| Bushranger's Ransom, or A Ride for Life | E.I. Cole | E.I. Cole's Bohemian Dramatic Company | 28 Mar. IMDb | |||
| Called Back | W. J. Lincoln | Arthur Styan | Short | 15 Apr. IMDb | ||
| Caloola, or The Adventures of a Jackeroo | Alfred Rolfe | Charles Villiers | 20 Nov. IMDb | |||
| Captain Midnight, the Bush King | Alfred Rolfe | Alfred Rolfe, Lily Dampier | Drama | 9 Feb. IMDb | ||
| Captain Starlight (a.k.a. Gentleman of the Road) |
Alfred Rolfe | Lily Dampier, Lottie Lyell, Augustus Neville, Alfred Rolfe | 16 Mar. - Based on novel IMDb | |||
| The Colleen Bawn | Gaston Mervale | Louise Lovely, James Martin | 25 Sep. IMDb | |||
| The Cup Winner | Alfred Rolfe | Charles Villiers | Drama | 7 Nov. IMDb | ||
| Dan Morgan | ? | ? | Drama | 22 May IMDb | ||
| The Double Event | W.J. Lincoln | Martyn Hagan, The Bland Holt Company | 21 Oct. IMDb | |||
| The Drover's Sweetheart | John Gavin | John Gavin | Drama / Thriller | 9 May IMDb | ||
| The Fatal Wedding | Raymond Longford | Master Anson, Miss Clare, Tom Cosgrove, George D. Ellis | 24 Apr. IMDb | |||
| Five of Hearts, or Buffalo Bill's Love Story | E.I. Cole | E.I. Cole, E.I. Cole's Bohemian Dramatic Company | 10 May IMDb | |||
| Frank Gardiner, the King of the Road | John Gavin | John Gavin | 27 Feb. IMDb | |||
| The Golden West | George Young | 27 Mar. IMDb | ||||
| In the Nick of Time | Alfred Rolfe | Drama | 4 Sep. IMDb | |||
| It Is Never Too Late to Mend | W. J. Lincoln | Stanley Walpole | Drama | 7 Jan. (produced by J. and N. Tait) IMDb | ||
| The Lady Outlaw | Alfred Rolfe | Charles Villiers | Drama | 28 Aug. IMDb | ||
| The Life of Rufus Dawes | Alfred Rolfe | Lily Dampier, Raymond Longford, Lottie Lyell | 19 June - Based on novel IMDb | |||
| The Lost Chord | W. J. Lincoln | ? | Drama | 13 May IMDb | ||
| The Luck of Roaring Camp | W. J. Lincoln | John Cosgrove | Western | 25 Mar. IMDb | ||
| Mates of the Murrumbidgee | Alfred Rolfe | ? | Drama | 4 Sep. IMDb | ||
| The Miner's Curse | Alfred Rolfe | ? | 7 Dec. IMDb | |||
| The Miner's Daughter | ? | ? | Drama | 28 June IMDb | ||
| Moora Neya, or The Message of the Spear | Alfred Rolfe | Ethel Phillips, Charles Villiers, Stanley Walpole | 31 July IMDb | |||
| The Mystery of a Hansom Cab | W. J. Lincoln | 4 Mar. - Based on novel IMDb | ||||
| One Hundred Years Ago | Gaston Mervale | Louise Lovely, Harrie Ireland, A.J. Patrick, Godfrey Cass | Drama / Thriller | 8 May IMDb | ||
| Only a Factory Girl | ? | ? | Drama | 14 Aug. IMDb | ||
| The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole | Raymond Longford | William Coulter, J. Eldridge, Jack Goodall, Fred Hardy | 7 Aug. IMDb | |||
| Sentenced for Life | E.I. Cole | E.I. Cole's Bohemian Dramatic Company | 10 June IMDb | |||
| The Squatter and the Clown | ? | ? | Drama | 16 Aug. IMDb | ||
| The Squatter's Son | E.I. Cole | E.I. Cole's Bohemian Dramatic Company | 22 Apr. IMDb | |||
| The Sundowner | E.I. Cole | Vera Remée, Frank Mills | 21 Aug. IMDb | |||
| Sweet Nell of Old Drury | Raymond Longford | Walter Bastin, Dorothy Clarke, Stewart Clyde, W. Edgeworth | 2 Dec. IMDb | |||
| A Tale of the Australian Bush (a.k.a. Ben Hall, the Notorious Bushranger) |
Gaston Mervale | A.J. Patrick, Godfrey Cass, Harry Beaumont | 3 Oct. IMDb | |||
| Three Strings to Her Bow | George Young | ? | Comedy | 10 Apr. IMDb | ||
| A Ticket in Tatts | Gaston Mervale | A.J. Patrick, Alf Scarlett | Comedy | 19 June IMDb | ||
| Way Outback | Alfred Rolfe | Charles Villiers | Romance | 25 Sep. IMDb | ||
| What Women Suffer | Alfred Rolfe | Alfred Rolfe, Ethel Phillips, Stanley Walpole, Charles Villiers | Drama / Thriller | 2 Oct. IMDb | ||
| 1912 | ||||||
| Angel of His Dreams | George Marlow | Ada Guilford, J. Stanford, H. Twitcham | Drama | IMDb | ||
| Breaking the News | ||||||
| The Bushman's Bride | ||||||
| Call of the Bush | ||||||
| The Cheat | Cecil B. DeMille | Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, James Neill, Yutaka Abe, Raymond Hatton, Dick La Reno | ||||
| Conn, the Shaughraun | ||||||
| Cooee and the Echo | ||||||
| Crime and the Criminal | ||||||
| A Daughter of Australia | ||||||
| Do Men Love Women? | ||||||
| The Eleventh Hour | ||||||
| Gambler's Gold | ||||||
| Hands Across the Sea | ||||||
| King of the Coiners | ||||||
| The Life Story of John Lee, or The Man They Could Not Hang | ||||||
| The Love Tyrant | ||||||
| The Midnight Wedding | ||||||
| The Moira, or Mystery of the Bush | ||||||
| The Mystery of the Black Pearl | ||||||
| The Octoroon | ||||||
| Percy Gets a Job | ||||||
| Rip Van Winkle | ||||||
| A Silent Witness | ||||||
| The Sin of a Woman | ||||||
| The Strangler's Grip | ||||||
| Strike | ||||||
| The Ticket of Leave Man | ||||||
| The Tide of Death | ||||||
| Whose Was the Hand? | Alfred Rolfe | Charles Villiers, Stanley Walpole | Short/Drama/Thiller | IMDb | ||
| Won on the Post | ||||||
| The Wreck of the Dunbar or The Yeoman's Wedding | ||||||
| 1913 | ||||||
| Australia Calls | Raymond Longford | William E. Hart, Lottie Lyell, Alfred O'Shea, Frank Philips, Andrew Warr, George Wilkins | IMDb | |||
| A Blue Gum Romance | Franklyn Barrett | Tien Hogue, Douglas Lotherington, Tom Middleton | Drama / Thriller | IMDb | ||
| The Bondage of the Bush | Charles Woods | Alfred Bristow, Wilton Power, D.R. Rivenall, Charles Woods | Short/ Drama /Thriller | IMDb | ||
| The Crisis | ||||||
| Dr. Mawson in the Antarctic | ||||||
| The Life of a Jackeroo | ||||||
| A Melbourne Mystery | ||||||
| Moondyne | ||||||
| 'Neath Austral Skies | ||||||
| Pommy Arrives in Australia | ||||||
| The Remittance Man | ||||||
| The Reprieve | ||||||
| The Road to Ruin | ||||||
| Sea Dogs of Australia | ||||||
| The Sick Stockrider | ||||||
| Transported | W.J. Lincoln | George Bryant, Godfrey Cass, Roy Redgrave | ||||
| 1914 | ||||||
| The Day | ||||||
| A Long, Long Way to Tipperary | ||||||
| The Silence of Dean Maitland | ||||||
| The Swagman's Story | ||||||
| Taking His Chance | ||||||
| Trooper Campbell | ||||||
| 1915 | ||||||
| For Australia | ||||||
| The Hero of the Dardanelles | Alfred Rolfe | Guy Hastings, Loma Rossmore | Short | 20 per cent of the film survives. | ||
| How We Beat the Emden | ||||||
| Into Australia's Unknown | ||||||
| The Loyal Rebel | ||||||
| Ma Hoggan's New Boarder | ||||||
| My Partner | ||||||
| The Rebel | ||||||
| The Shepherd of the Southern Cross | ||||||
| The Sunny South or The Whirlwind of Fate | ||||||
| We'll Take Her Children in Amongst Our Own | IMDb | |||||
| Within Our Gates | ||||||
| 1916 | ||||||
| Charlie at the Sydney Show | ||||||
| Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford | ||||||
| If the Huns Came to Melbourne | ||||||
| In the Last Stride | ||||||
| An Interrupted Divorce | ||||||
| The Joan of Arc of Loos | ||||||
| The Life of Adam Lindsay Gordon | ||||||
| A Maori Maid's Love | ||||||
| The Martyrdom of Nurse Cavell | Jack Gavin, Charles Post Mason | Jack Gavin | Rel. 31 January 1916 IMDb | |||
| Murphy of Anzac | ||||||
| Nurse Cavell | ||||||
| Officer 666 | ||||||
| The Pioneers | ||||||
| La Revanche | ||||||
| Seven Keys to Baldpate | ||||||
| Within the Law | ||||||
| The Woman in the Case | ||||||
| 1917 | ||||||
| Australia's Peril | Franklyn Barrett | Maie Baird, Roland Conway, John De Lacey | War | 19 May IMDb | ||
| The Church and the Woman | Raymond Longford | George K. Chesterton Bonar, Nada Conrade, Boyd Irwin | Drama | 13 Oct. IMDb | ||
| The Hayseeds Come to Sydney (a. k. a. The Hayseeds Come to Town) |
Beaumont Smith | Tal Ordell, Fred MacDonald, Harry McDonna | 9 July IMDb | |||
| The Hayseeds' Backblocks Show | ||||||
| The Monk and the Woman | ||||||
| The Murder of Captain Fryatt | John Gavin | Harrington Reynolds, John Gavin, Olive Proctor | Short | 26 Feb. IMDb | ||
| Our Friends the Hayseeds (a. k. a. The Hayseeds) |
Beaumont Smith | Roy Redgrave, Walter Cornock | 19 Mar. IMDb | |||
| Remorse, a Story of the Red Plague | J.E. Mathews | Cyril Mackay, Ida Gresham, Marie D'Alton | Drama | 3 Jan. IMDb | ||
| 1918 | ||||||
| 500 Pounds Reward | ||||||
| Algie's Romance | Leonard Doogood | Leonard Doogood | Comedy | IMDb | ||
| A Coo-ee from Home | ||||||
| Cupid Camouflaged | ||||||
| The Enemy Within | Snowy Baker | |||||
| The Hayseeds' Melbourne Cup | Beaumont Smith | |||||
| His Convict Bride | ||||||
| His Only Chance | ||||||
| Just Peggy | ||||||
| The Laugh on Dad | ||||||
| The Lure of the Bush | Snowy Baker | |||||
| A Romance of Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860 | ||||||
| Satan in Sydney | Beaumont Smith | |||||
| Scars of Love | ||||||
| The Waybacks | Arthur W. Sterry | Vincent White, Gladys Leigh, Lucy Adair, Louis Machilaton, Rose Rooney, Harry Hodson, William Turner, George Hewlitt, Lance Vance | IMDb | |||
| What Happened to Jean | Herbert Walsh | James Anderson, Edith Crowe, Mrs. Ernest Good, Herbert Walsh, Price Weir | Drama / Thriller | IMDb | ||
| The Woman Suffers | Raymond Longford | Lottie Lyell, Boyd Irwin | Drama | IMDb | ||
| Yachts and Hearts, or The Opium Smugglers | Charles Byers Coates | Drama | IMDb | |||
| 1919 | ||||||
| Australia's Own | J.E. Ward | Garry Gordon, Nellie Romer | Action / Adventure | 20 Jan. IMDb | ||
| Australians in Palestine | Frank Hurley | Documentary | IMDb | |||
| Barry Butts In | Beaumont Smith | Barry Lupino, John Cosgrove, Agnes Dobson | 9 Aug. IMDb | |||
| Desert Gold | Beaumont Smith | Bryce Rowe, Marie Ney, John Cosgrove | 24 Mar. IMDb | |||
| Does the Jazz Lead to Destruction? | Fred Ward | Ethel Bennetto, George Irving | Comedy | 4 Aug. IMDb | ||
| The Face at the Window | ||||||
| The Man From Kangaroo | E.J. Carroll, Snowy Baker | Snowy Baker | ||||
| The Sentimental Bloke | Raymond Longford | Arthur Tauchert, Lottie Lyell, Gilbert Emery | Drama / Romance | 4 Oct. IMDb | ||
| The Shadow of Lightning Ridge | E.J. Carroll, Snowy Baker | Snowy Baker | ||||
| South | ||||||
| Struck Oil | Franklyn Barrett | Harry Roberts, Percy Walshe | Drama | 20 Oct. IMDb | ||
| Why Jessie Learned to Jazz | Fred Ward | Olga Willard | Short | 4 Aug. IMDb | ||
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